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Speed Limits

Volume 329: debated on Tuesday 20 April 1999

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To ask the Secretary of the State for the Enviroment, Transport and the Regions what measures he plans to take to raise public awareness of maximum national speed limits for various classes of road vehicles; and if he will make a statement. [79691]

Details of the national speed limits are contained in the Highway Code. The theory test for learner drivers of all classes of vehicles contains appropriate questions about different speed limits Although we have no immediate plans to publicise vehicle speed limits more widely, we will look at the issue of vehicle speed limit signing as part of the wider review of speed management policy which is currently under way.